PACAP 8 / Mystery School of Coreography

Culturgest

17 a 19 july 2025 | Sat and Sun (19h)

MYS
Mystery School of Choreography
Escola mistério de coreografia
L’école chorégraphique du mystère
Escola Misteriosa de Coreografia
Tajymnŏ szkōła choreografije
Schule der Mysterien in der Choreografie
Μυστηριώδες σχολείο χορογραφίας
Tajemnicza Szkoła Choreografii
Escuela Mística de Coreografía
مدرسه رمز و راز طراحی رقص
Mysterium Skola för Koreografi
Escuela Coreográfica del Misterio
コレオグラフィーのミステリースクール

As a closing gesture of a six-month program of experimentation and co-creation, PACAP 8 | Mystery School of Choreography (MYS) spills and installs its studies at Culturgest.  In residency, MYS will reflect, move, nest and digest together, and share a fountain of spells over three durational evenings. Meg Stuart, Ana Rocha, Márcio Canabarro, Santiago Tricot, Mieko Suzuki, Xullaji, and PACAP 8 | MYS artists Ana Szopa, António Bollaño, Arash Khakpour, Emily da Silva, Guillermo Tarasewicz, Isabela Rossi, iSSiE – iSaAc, Julia Kosałka, Kaya Freeman, María Ibarretxe, Martha Kotsia, Michiru Shin, Natacha Campos, Raul Aranha, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Śomi Śniegocka, Therese Bendjus and Tiago Vieira, offer their real and fictional archive with spirited intention for our common futures.

How can we instigate and elevate community through its multiple dimensional legacy? Can mysticism be a crack in the real, so we may step into an archive of becoming? What if embodied mysticism is a radical political act? What is the revolution of our nervous system? By not looking at dance as spectacle but as spell, can we re-arrange our relational field with the many realities rapidly changing around us? Embodying the shared archive forward and back, visitors will enter a collective journey of oracular encounters, visions and dreams. MYS invites you to immerse into its inner architecture. MYS taps into remembrance as a contextual container. Here, you are not a spectator. You are a fragment of the divine in rebellion, so proceed accordingly.  Because archiving the future is a form of hope.

Artistic director & MYS concept : Meg Stuart
Artistic collaboration PACAP8 | MYS : Ana Rocha
Artistic collaboration Archives for Future Spells: Márcio K. Canabarro and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot
Live music: Mieko Suzuki and Xullaji
Technical direction: Santiago Tricot
Special thanks: Aline Belfortm, Pedro Azevedo

Duration 4h | public entry and exit is allowed freely

PACAP 8 participants: Ana Szopa (PL), António Bollaño (PT), Arash Khakpour (IR), Emily da Silva (BR), Guillermo Tarasewicz (UY), Isabela Rossi (BR/IT), iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo (EC), Julia Kosałka (PL), Kaya Freeman (PT), María Ibarretxe (ES), Martha Kotsia (GR), Michiru Shin (JP), Natacha Campos (PT), Raul Aranha (IN), Salomé Pham-Van-Hué (FR), Sepideh Khodarahmi (SE/IR), Śomi Śniegocka (PL), Therese Bendjus (DE) e Tiago Vieira (PT).

Production: Forum Dança Co-production PACAP 8: Teatro do Bairro Alto, Culturgest, Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk, Goethe-Institut Portugal, as part of the Kulturfest festival Co-production in Residency: O Espaço do Tempo PACAP 8 Support: Alkantara, Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, Kees Eijrond Foundation, OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo, Piscina

Venue

Cultugest

R. Arco do Cego 50, 1000-300 Lisboa

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Top image © Vitorino Coragem